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For the Daily Express, a quote from a French mother is the headline: "In France we too are afraid of illegal migrants."
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
I smiled and left the courthouse bouncing up and down as I contacted my editor in D.C. to let him know I’d commandeered a golden quote.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
To borrow a quote from the late great “SportsCenter” anchor Stuart Scott…Booyah!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And though “Tony” doesn’t entirely lack that heady romanticization, its choice to amplify its introductory quote — making Bourdain an even more insufferable lout for dramatic effect — feels antithetical to Bourdain’s raw candor.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
There’s a quote right next to a photo of a hairdresser pressing a woman’s long, thick black hair—hair like mine.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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Reading from the pages, he quotes, “‘His usually great color sense failed him, his fabric sense failed him, and certainly, his sense of how a modern woman dresses after 8 p.m. failed him.”
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
That piece was built on quotes from loving realists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mortgage borrowers with low credit scores, low down-payment amounts or “unique” personal situations are seeing quotes over 7%, Jason Madiedo, co-CEO of SimplyPMG, a mortgage lender, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
It quotes Nepal's prime minister who said the tragedy has left an entire nation "shocked and deeply distressed".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
I put air quotes around safety, as if it weren’t really a thing to be concerned about.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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German media on Friday quoted a federal police report that lists more than 165 suspected sabotage cases nationwide this year, though they don't say who is responsible.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“You can’t debate it in the newspaper,” Joseph was quoted as saying, acknowledging that insurance can be technical and complicated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
He quoted me $42,000 and promised to complete the job in just three days.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Wilkinson argued that it was hard to know for sure what led to the disease—and quoted C+C Music Factory’s “Things that Make You Go Hmm” in her closing argument.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
That note, it turned out—which by now had been quoted or read aloud by half the grade—was Maya’s first ticket to a kind of popularity she’d never experienced before.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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As he liked to say, quoting Lord John Boyd Orr, “You can’t build peace on empty stomachs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Look at my husband, nothing stopped him" is the Sun's headline, quoting the Queen who praised her husband's courage while coping with his diagnosis.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
According to Politico, which broke the story quoting anonymous sources, the British leader sent a "few messages" via an unspecified communication channel to a person he believed to be Wiles before becoming suspicious.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Markets stop panicking when policymakers stop panicking,” Lee said, quoting billionaire hedge-fund manager David Tepper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Monticelli was the one, says Vincent, who perceived, quoting Aurier writing about Vincent, “the colorations of things with such intensity, with such a metallic, gem-like quality.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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